From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for function groups
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:59:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0vt5jol.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6wp1m4p.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:12:38 +0200")
>> I have pondered a year ago about doing something like this,
>> but based on Info and/or HTML, i.e. to generate Info nodes with
>> functions listed by groups in separate nodes (possibly using HTML format),
>> so e.g. going to (info "(shortdoc) Buffer")
>> could display an Info node with a menu of related functions,
>> where nodes could be navigated using Info keys.
>> Does this make sense?
>
> I don't immediately see anything to be gained by using Info mode here --
> it just seems like a complication. What would the advantages be?
Some advantages of using Info mode:
1. Info navigation keys and commands are available for navigation:
Info-next, Info-prev, Info-up, Info-top-node, Info-follow-nearest-node, ...
2. Info addressing scheme, so e.g. such reference (info "(shortdoc) Buffer")
could link documents, or be sent by mail, and like URL could be visited,
Info-goto-node does the right thing to visit such generated Info nodes;
3. Info searching and indexing capabilities all should work with generated nodes;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20201011035127.7723.3256@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20201011035128.E3FD320667@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-10-11 3:55 ` master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for function groups Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-11 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-11 21:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-11 23:38 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-12 8:05 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-12 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-12 16:50 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-12 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-13 20:05 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-13 20:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-14 7:48 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-13 20:55 ` T.V Raman
2020-10-14 7:52 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-14 14:41 ` T.V Raman
2020-10-14 4:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-14 7:59 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2020-10-15 6:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 12:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-18 20:12 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-19 3:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-19 8:05 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-23 20:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-24 19:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-24 23:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-25 13:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-27 13:48 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-27 14:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-27 15:43 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-27 17:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-27 22:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-28 8:20 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-28 13:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-28 11:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <CADwFkmnXuyh2cAddLtgTNmsSv8av3o9qk98CVcTAzq6B8Lrpkw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <87blgknjze.fsf@gnus.org>
2020-10-30 11:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-30 12:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 12:27 ` Stefan Kangas
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87k0vt5jol.fsf@mail.linkov.net \
--to=juri@linkov.net \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).